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[David Lehman] ↠ A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Jewish Encounters Series) ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Jewish Encounters Series) Really excellent Israel Drazin Remarkably, since the first half of the twentieth century, during the golden age of song writing, most of America's best songs - heard on the radio, on records, TV, movies and on the stage, and sung on the streets, at work and at home - were written by Jews. These include the Christian songs "White Christmas" and "Easter Parade," jazz "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," and the classics "God Bless America," "Embraceable You," "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," and ma.
| Title | : | A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Jewish Encounters Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805242503 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
. He lives in New York City. DAVID LEHMAN is the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, and the author of seven books of poems, most recently When a Woman Loves a Man
Really excellent Israel Drazin Remarkably, since the first half of the twentieth century, during the golden age of song writing, most of America's best songs - heard on the radio, on records, TV, movies and on the stage, and sung on the streets, at work and at home - were written by Jews. These include the Christian songs "White Christmas" and "Easter Parade," jazz "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," and the classics "God Bless America," "Embraceable You," "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," and ma. Lehman Does it Again What a masterpiece!Did you ever consider that George Gershwin thought up "It Ain't Necessarily So" with the Torah blessing as earworm? (They are identical, although Gershwin adds several different chromatic intervals into the motif.)Such are the delicious details of this "fine" book -- and David's writing will keep you spellbound as you join him through a nostalgic trip of our parents' generation of music.A great read, packed with David's wonderful personal anecdo. This Book Is Here to Stay (and should be required reading) Oh my gosh, this is a good book.no, actually, its a GREAT book.If you love American standards, the "Great American Songbook", show tunes,old radio tunes, old movie musicals , then you're gonna love this book.Incredibly well researched.Easy to read - and fun - songs keep running through your mind.As you read, you can hear Ella Fitzgerald, or Frank Sinatra or Fred Astaire(who sang so many standards in his movies).Highly, highly recommended.
Digressive, nostalgic and deeply moving, Lehman achieves a fine, lasting tribute to the American songbook. Delving into the iconic hits of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, Harold Arlen, Larry Hart, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, among selective others, Lehman ponders how these Ashkenazi Jews, mostly raised speaking Yiddish in New York as cantors' sons, melded their particular wit, melancholy and sophistication with the rhythmic richness of African-American music—a blending of blues and jazz. In
He guides us through America in the golden age of song, when “Embraceable You,” “White Christmas,” “Easter Parade,” “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” “My Romance,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Stormy Weather,” and countless others became nothing less than the American sound track. The stories behind these songs, the shows from which many of them came, and the shows from which many of them came, and the composers and lyricists who wrote them give voice to a specifically American saga of love, longing, assimilation, and transformation.Lehman’s analytical skills, wit, and exuberance infuse this book with an energy and a tone like no other: at once sharply observant, personally searching, and attuned to the songs that all of us love. Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIn A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook—the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies—and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears America singing—with a Yiddish accent. He helps us under
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